# Finish my sentence, and start a new one!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [June 30, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050 "2018-06-30T16:06:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/602 "2018-08-09T06:59:47Z")

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… never having to say you’re sorry.

The problem with those old 1970s movie lines is …

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/603 "2018-08-09T07:11:56Z")

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…that Charlton Heston is now a maniac.

You fools! You…

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/604 "2018-08-09T15:29:23Z")

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should know better than to cross the damn beams.

Sigourney Weaver in \*Ghostbusters \*was simply \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/605 "2018-08-09T16:16:34Z")

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… a silver fox goddess.

You know who else trips my trigger? \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/606 "2018-08-09T16:21:17Z")

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Bullet, Roy Rogers’s dog. He was constantly getting under Trigger’s hooves, causing him to trip.  
When Elvis sang “You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Hound Dog”, he was talking to…

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/607 "2018-08-09T17:54:04Z")

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A. Hound Dog, Esq., a noted Memphis trial attorney and bon vivant.

Anybody who calls me a bon vivant obviously \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/608 "2018-08-09T18:10:40Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Anybody who calls me a bon vivant obviously \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

failed French.  
Aujourd’hui, maman. . .

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**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/609 "2018-08-09T23:31:27Z")

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said a creepy stranger behind me, I glared at him before pulling my Executive rain coat around me and facing into the wind, I don’t care about his mother, or did he mean, ‘Maman’, what the hell was he talking about, I ran down to the taxi stand and got into the first available one as I needed to get to…

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/610 "2018-08-09T23:37:11Z")

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…the toaster oven exorcists to pay my bill.

Can you believe he charged me…

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/611 "2018-08-10T00:09:15Z")

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… three easy payments of 59.95 plus shipping and handling?

But because I called in the ten-minute period …

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/612 "2018-08-10T01:02:03Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> But because I called in the ten-minute period …

… I got a second one if I just paid shipping.  
My stomach. . .

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/613 "2018-08-10T01:05:56Z")

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Needs chocolate. ( truely)  
I prefer to eat only\_\_\_\_\_.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/614 "2018-08-10T02:31:00Z")

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… Hershey’s, but let’s face it, I’ll take what I can get.

I’d have some chocolate right now, but …

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/615 "2018-08-10T02:35:46Z")

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…I’m currently trapped under a heavy bookcase hemorrhaging blood into my lungs. Posting this from my phone with my one free hand.

Please…send…

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**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/616 "2018-08-10T04:34:46Z")

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…chocolate. I’ll even take the cheapest. But make it dark. If you can bring me Johnnie Walker, I wouldn’t turn that away. Also can you turn the page of this book.  
You see, since the bookcase fell on me, I’ve been reading…

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/617 "2018-08-10T08:29:36Z")

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> [@boson](#):
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> You see, since the bookcase fell on me, I’ve been reading…

…_Helter Skelter_.  
Squeaky Fromme. . .

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/618 "2018-08-10T08:51:17Z")

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… should have left well-enough alone, rather than trying to assassinate Gerald Ford.

What’s with these …

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/619 "2018-08-10T13:02:42Z")

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… fingernail clippers?

They cut my thumb nail just fine, but they can’t handle …

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/620 "2018-08-10T15:34:08Z")

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…heavy duty tree trimming, as I discovered to my great surprise and dismay this morning.

I plan, however, in the future to…

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**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-my-sentence-and-start-a-new-one/817050/621 "2018-08-10T22:15:45Z")

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walk the Earth like Caine in _Kung Fu_, I plan to leave as soon as…

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